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There was a crazy gin craze in London in the 1700s
There was a dramatic social change and the inability of older civic models to adapt.
A chaotic world can make sobriety seem overrated
More free time
Great depression many existing trends; schooling & time off of work










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Why did the parliament seized on gin?
What is a GDP
Picnic and bowling leages faded into past years
what else there is you could do in the 1940s





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The population of London grew two and a half times as fast as the overall population of England form the mid 1600d to the mid 1700s.
Selling Gin was made illegal.
Less expensive than imported wine

30 year cat and mouse game of legislation to prevent gin consumption
new society saw a civic surplus
us added up billions of collective hours per week
watching tv became a part time job for every citizen
someone born in the 1960s watched something like fiffty thousand hours of tv already